What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

It's curious that only in Washington can you spend $2 billion and claim that you're saving money.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.